Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.
Parallel translations
- WEB Again you will plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria. The planters will plant, and will enjoy its fruit.
- BSB Again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria; the farmers will plant and enjoy the fruit.
- NKJV You shall yet plant vines on the mountains of Samaria; The planters shall plant and eat them as ordinary food.
- NASB “Again you will plant vineyards On the hills of Samaria; The planters will plant And will enjoy the fruit.
- NLT Again you will plant your vineyards on the mountains of Samaria and eat from your own gardens there.
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Quick answer
Israel will again plant vineyards in Samaria and enjoy their fruit. Settled, peaceful prosperity will return to the land.
Overview
Planting vineyards and enjoying their produce signals security, blessing, and the reversal of judgment's desolation. The mention of Samaria highlights the restoration of the northern territory. It pictures the shalom God grants His restored people, where labor is no longer cursed by loss.
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- Amos 9:14And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
- Mic 4:4But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it.
- Isa 65:21–22And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
- Lev 19:23–25And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of.
- Deut 28:30Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.
- Obad 1:19And they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
- 1 Sam 21:5And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel.
- Deut 20:6And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.
- Isa 62:8–9The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:
- Ezek 36:8But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come.
- Zech 3:10In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree.
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